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2026-09-16T07:53:21.074-07:00

Gritzko's Adventure

🛴 GRITZKO'S ADVENTURE 🎀

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💜 Lives: 3

🛴 GRITZKO'S ADVENTURE 🎀

Arrow keys / A D to move, Space or ↑ to jump. Climb to the high platforms and touch both caged friends to set them free and win! Bop the goofy pups from above, dodge them from the side, and watch out for acorns from the flying squirrels overhead.

Rotary Un-Smartphone Kit Gadget

2023-03-26T07:36:00.006-07:00

Rotary Un-Smartphone Kit Gadget

We managed to find ultimate retro gadget for you.Justine Haupt’s Rotary Un-Smartphone Kit.

Smartphones are cool if you like carrying a miniature computer everywhere with you, but if you only care about making calls and all the other stuff is just getting in the way, the mobile rotary phone designed by space engineer and brilliant inventor Justine Haupt is just perfect. Featuring the familiar plastic dial that most of us 90s kids grew up with, the Rotary Un-Smartphone is basically a barebone smartphone that only includes the absolute essentials,but with a cool retro look

Apart from the rotary dial, this cool-looking handheld features a mechanical ringer bell made gold or silver-coated brass, two displays – front-side OLED and back-side ePaper – and mechanical power switch, and external antennas for better reception.

Having to rotate the plastic dial every time you want to call someone might seem tedious, but that’s not really how the Un-Smartphone works. According to the project’s website, “you can store your contacts list and then dial up your friends with just two spins of the dial. When the less frequent need to dial a new number arises, the novelty of the satisfying-to-use rotary dial is fun rather than annoying.

The Rotary Un-Smartphone is currently being sold as a kit that Justine Haupt is easy to put together by virtually anyone. She lists a number of reasons for not offering it as a ready-to-use device, with the most important one being FCC licensing.

For more information on the cool-looking Rotary Un-Smartphone, check out Justine Haupt’s website, Sky’s Edge.

CAT AND MOUSE ARMORER

2023-03-26T07:00:00.002-07:00

CAT AND MOUSE ARMORER

Jeff de Boer from Calgary has made a career out of creating intricate metal suits of armor for cats and mice.

“It all started with a mouse,” Jeff de Boer recalls. He was looking for a creative way to combine his longtime passion for medieval armor with his trade as a jeweler and one day he made a tiny suit of armor for a mouse. It seemed like an interesting idea at the time, but he had no idea he would go on to become known as the world’s first and only animal armorer.He created over 500 suits of armor for mice and cats.He made his first suit of human armor in high school. But his major in jewelry making made him think of things on a much smaller scale. He is influenced by various historical styles, from the Japanese samurai to the Islamic chain-mail.

Jeff de Boers' clients almost always have a deep interest in history and art. Many have clear requests that he use elements of various historical armor styles, like the Roman gladiators, Polish Hussars, the Ottomans,etc.Each armor set contains anywhere from 500 to 300 individual pieces and requires dozens of hours to complete. Most are crafted from nickel, steel, or brass.

IT SHINTO AMULETS AGAINST VIRUSES

2022-07-31T17:25:00.006-07:00

Japanese Shinto shrine sells low-tech IT amulets which keep computers from freezing and restarting randomly, as well as free from viruses and malware :D. Amulet consists from a small, CPU-shaped sticker meant to be stuck onto the gadget in need of divine protection and a larger piece of cardboard meant to be worn by the computer operator. If used correctly, the amulet will allegedly protect your machine from viruses, malware and random errors, as well as keep it from freezing up.The Kanda Myojin shrine sells its IT amulets for 1,200 yen.

3D PRINTED LEGO PARTS

2021-05-24T12:32:00.004-07:00

3D PRINTED LEGO PARTS DIY

Is it legal to 3D print Legos?

Short answer: 3D printing LEGO-compatible elements is legal, provided that you don't violate copyright, trademark, or functional or design patents. Longer answer: There are a lot of things about LEGO that are protected, which you can't “legally” do.

However It is illegal to use brand name Lego or to copy entire branded sets and sell them.

You can buy 3d printer for less than 100$ in 2021. but probably you won't be satisfied with results.

top 7 3d cheap printers for 2021. are:

1.Anet 8
2.da Vinci mini w+
3.MP Select Mini V2
4.Ender 3
5.CR-10 V2
6.M3D Micro
7.Duplicator i3 V2

3d printing of lego parts has its benefits and can be even lucrative if you manage to design,manufacture and sell your original sets or spare parts.

Have in mind that 3d printed lego parts are more prone to breaking since originals are made with special plastic mold injection machines and pressures up to 150 PSI.Lego is developing its bricks from 1932. That's a lot of trial and error.

Color printing on 3d printed parts is another problem and demands entire new article

Skyrim original printed figurine helmet

scaled example of fully usable and functional lego gocart

MOST DANGEROUS TOYS FOR KIDS FROM ATOMIC AGE

2016-02-06T09:05:00.002-08:00

"SAFE" RADIOACTIVE TOYS FROM 1940S AND 1950S

From the age when anything "atomic" was hip and modern and people weren't aware of dangers from radioactivity. Some of these toys were made in millions and some are very rare and valuable collectibles.

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy

by Labby Alfred Carlton Gilbert, available from 1951 to 1952

"Safe" atom chamber

Geiger counter

The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual "Prospecting for Uranium."

Kix Atomic Bomb Ring

known as The Lone Ranger Atomic Ring, a Kix cereal promotion from 1947

The instructions stated that "you'll see brilliant flashes of light in the inky darkness inside the atom chamber. These vivid flashes are caused by the released energy of atoms. PERFECTLY SAFE - We guarantee you can wear the KIX Atomic "Bomb" Ring with complete safety. The atomic materials inside the ring are harmless."
Basically it was a tiny spinthariscope: when the red tail fin was taken off, you could look through the ring and observe some scintillations caused by nuclear reactions of polonium-alpha particles on a zinc sulfide screen. One million rings were made, and these were the most popular premium rings ever.

Singing Road at Route 66 in New Mexico

2015-07-16T05:26:00.001-07:00

Head over to New Mexico and take a drive down Route 66. There, the road will sing "America the Beautiful" to you. The rumble strips on this stretch of road have been carved into the road to create specific intervals and pitches when your tires run over them. The only catch is that you have to drive at 45 miles per hour for it to happen.

To make the road sing, a local contractor put down metal plates along the road then poured asphalt on top of them. The plates combined with the rumble strips is what makes the sound when someone drives over it.

The singing road was paid for by National Geographic. It is a permanent addition to Route 66.

The only other singing road in the country is in California. It plays “William Tell Overture.”

Traditional Chinese drawings on dusty cars as a viral phenomena

2015-01-18T03:20:00.002-08:00

Xiao Xiangzhong 67 year old chinese teacher draws traditional figures and motifs on dusty street cars in Chengdu in province of Sichuan.This becomes very viral as we can see from pictures below.

T-SHIRT HELL

2014-02-12T05:50:00.001-08:00

Hilarious ,funny, unique, sometimes offensive, on the edge, brilliant and always to the core...must check their t-shirts and buy one...http://www.tshirthell.com/store/clicks.php?partner=drzook

3D Printed iPhone Case with Moving Gears

2013-10-11T03:56:00.001-07:00

These personalized iPhone cases, designed by Danny Tasmakis were 3D printed on an Objet Connex multi-material 3D printer and feature moving inter-locking gear wheels! This is the only 3D printer of its kind in the world able to create complex assemblies made of moving parts - each of which is printed in a different material. In this video, you see a small selection from among the total Stratasys range of 107 materials, including transparent, black, transparent with patterned dots and grid lines, white and various composite grey/blue shades.You can actually contact designer and order cover for price of 27Eur.

Geek builds full-auto gauss gun

2013-08-12T07:13:00.002-07:00

Gauss guns, aka coilguns, are a projectile based weapon most commonly found in science-fiction but which can be built with today’s technology. They work by using electromagnets to propel solid slugs at a high velocity.
This gauss gun, with a full auto feature, was developed by Delta V Engineering. Delta V is about making sci-fi concepts a reality and clearly have a real and functional weapon here.
As the Dell laptop test shows this gauss gun doesn’t have the power of modern weapons however it could be used in situations where a gunpowder/chemical reaction wouldn’t be possible.

Power Source:	2x 22.2V, 3600mAh, 50C Li-Polymer Battery Packs
Switching:	IGBT
Weight:	4.17kg
Projectiles:	6.5x50mm Caseless Steel Slugs
Capacity:	15 Rounds
Rate of Fire:	7.7 Rounds/Sec
Muzzle Velocity:	42.03m/s
Muzzle Energy:	10.87J
Total Efficiency:	7.0%

Quadcopters cooperate to play catch

2012-09-30T11:12:00.005-07:00

Swiss researchers have published a new video showcasing the impressive aerial cooperation capabilities of robotic quadrocopters. In the demonstration, a trio of quadrocopters tethered to a net fly in formation to catch balls tossed at them. Once they've caught the ball in the net, they are able to launch it upwards by stretching the net at each end.
"To toss the ball, the quadrocopters accelerate rapidly outward to stretch the net tight between them and launch the ball up. Notice in the video that the quadrocopters are then pulled forcefully inward by the tension in the elastic net, and must rapidly stabilize in order to avoid a collision. Once recovered, the quadrotors cooperatively position the net below the ball in order to catch it." explained Robin Ritz, Lead Researcher at ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena."Because they are coupled to each other by the net, the quadrocopters experience complex forces that push the vehicles to the limits of their dynamic capabilities. To exploit the full potential of the vehicles under these circumstances requires several novel algorithms, including:

an optimality-based real-time trajectory generation algorithm for the catching maneuver;
a time-varying trajectory following control strategy to manage the forces on the individual vehicles that are induced by the net; and
learning algorithms that compensate for model inaccuracies when aiming the ball.

Dickhead T-shirt

2012-09-27T20:51:00.000-07:00

We manage to find ultimate prank T-shirt for you to buy. This gives new meaning to being a dickhead. Ultimate Gag T-Shirt. Great at parties!
Price: 10$ BUY HERE

Screaming Monkey Slingshot

2012-09-17T20:54:00.004-07:00

This monkey has a secret - there are pockets in the monkey's hands. Slip your fingers in, pull back his hind legs, and his arms will stretch to a crazy length with the magic of rubber! You can just feel the potential energy coursing through the monkey's imaginary veins. Let fly and you will be treated to a wondrous sight. The monkey will scream with delight when jolted. So, if the launch is hard enough, you'll get a scream of power in mid air; or if the landing is hard, you'll get a scream of protest as gravity does its work. Or, you fling like a master, you'll get a double-dose of monkey justice (i.e. noise).
Dimensions: 11" Tall (arms at sides)

Plush monkey flies through the air
Rubber arms allows you to launch him like a slingshot
Screams as he flies and again as he hits the ground

Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt

2012-09-17T20:18:00.002-07:00

Wearable ROCK!

Now you can purchase one of these fine Electronic Rock Guitar Shirts and get a little wearable ROCK magic for yourself. The Electronic Guitar Shirt is not a toy that plays pre-canned musical riffs, it is a real musical instrument that allows you to play your favorite songs and sound great doing it.
All major chords are recorded from a real electric guitar, and allows you to strum just like you would a real guitar. The included mini amp clips to your belt and gets plenty loud with great sounding amplification circuitry. The tone knob on the amp lets you adjust the sound just like a real guitar.

Product Features

Belt out your favorite rock tunes on this t-shirt based real playable electric guitar
Great real rock sound
Play all major chords
Strum by touching the string area on the front of the shirt
Mini guitar amp speaker clips to your belt
Volume goes to 11
Adjustable tone knob
Electronic components are easily removed from the shirt for washing
Requires 4 x AAA Batteries. Not included

Superhero Caped Socks

2012-09-12T06:19:00.002-07:00

Sock It To the Bad Guys. Geeks and sports don't come together often, but when they do, it's a thing of beauty. For a sports-related reason which shall remain unnamed, these socks became amazingly popular all of a sudden. We find it very funny and great as a original gift.

Superhero Caped Socks

Choose from Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman.
One size fits women's shoe size 6 1/2 to men's size 12.
80% acrylic / 17% polyester / 3% spandex
Machine wash warm. Separate colors.
For ages 14+.
Warning: Socks do not allow wearer to fly.

Cardboard record player

2012-09-12T06:05:00.001-07:00

A cardboard record player created as a mail promotion has become a chart-topping success for Vancouver-based sound design company GGRP. The six inch record in a corrugated cardboard mailer sleeve folds into a make-shift, human-powered player which, when turned using a pencil, transmits vibrations through the needle and amplifies via cardboard corrugations.
GGRP (Griffiths, Gibson and Ramsay Productions) engaged Grey Vancouver to conduct a brand identity and direct mail campaign with the brief to showcase GGRP’s creativity and love for sound. In response to the brief they delivered a new website and the cardboard record player.
The player was distributed to creative managers at US and Canadian ad agencies with a recording of a children's story called "A Town that Found its Sound". GGRP was soon inundated with requests for extra copies for creative directors' children.
Could this usher in a new generation of scratchers?

Sprout Pencil

2012-09-12T06:00:00.001-07:00

Sprout is at first glance just another wooden pencil. Not that there's anything wrong with wooden pencils; they're still the writing and drawing implement of choice for many people who appreciate the tactile feel and innate naturalness they possess. This particular one is made from Ticonderoga cedar, but features no eraser. Instead, the non-writing end of Sprout houses seeds.
The idea is that once the pencil has been used and sharpened multiple times until it's nothing more than a stub, it gets planted in a small container of soil and watered. The capsule at the end of the pencil contains three seeds of the plant of the user's choosing – there are 22 variants at present, including basil, eggplant, marigold, radish, and tomato – which will then hopefully germinate.
The seed capsule dissolves after several waterings, and once the plant has embedded itself in the soil the pencil can either be removed or used as a place marker. Given the right conditions and enough love and attention, the seed will blossom into a full-sized plant. What was once nothing more than a pencil stub fit to be thrown away will have produced a living organism capable of brightening up an office or garnishing a salad.

Useless Box

2012-09-09T06:20:00.002-07:00

Turn it on, so it can turn itself off. :)~

Ok, so it's a black box, sort of shiny, with a switch on top. But what does the switch do? Does it launch a nuclear attack? Does it terminate someone you don't know somewhere in the world? Does it make bacon magically appear? You stare at it over and over, hour after hour, until you can't take it anymore. You turn it on. And out of the box, a little finger pops out and turns the unit back off. That's all it does, and the smile on your face is proof it works. Presenting, the Useless Box Kit. You can buy electronics kit here

Also there are some variations (with a twist) available on market.

Damnation Custom Steampunk PC Case

2012-09-07T02:38:00.001-07:00

Damnation Custom Steampunk PC made by artist Jake Hildebrandt, for the release of Damnation (a video-game from Codemasters). Jake made some more stuff like this amazing laptop and pc mouse casing design.Truly unique.

http://jakehildebrandt.com/

Steampunk is a genre that originated during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction. It involves a setting where steam power is widely used—whether in an alternative history such as Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time —that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical Engine.

Steampunk also refers to art, fashion, and design that are informed by the aesthetics of steampunk literature.Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.

pc mouse

Example of a nice steampunk design by other author.

3D Newspapers in China

2012-09-07T02:02:00.001-07:00

Ever since China’s first 3D newspaper was released, back in April, the public has been asking for more. And they’re about to get it, as a limited number of the Hangzhou-based Daily Business editions are about to be issued, in 3D format.
British tabloid, The Sun, has announced it will be launching the first 3D newspaper, on June 5, a few days before the Soccer World Cup kicks off, in n attempt to raise awareness to the 3D broadcast of the sports event, by Sky News.

People in China are really in love on 3D staff. A newspaper that was issued in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, came out in 3D edition. Readers can see 3D pictures with 3D glasses that were attached with it. Well, this is not the first 3D newspaper which can found in China. In April, a newspaper from Shiyan city, Hubei Province, has made it the first. Looks like the printing technology for newspaper in China has made some breakthrough.

BEAUTY OF NIXIE TUBES

2012-09-07T01:37:00.003-07:00

A Nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information. The glass tube contains a wire-mesh anode and multiple cathodes, shaped like numerals or other symbols. Applying power to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon and often a little mercury or argon, in a Penning mixture.

The early Nixie displays were made by a small vacuum tube manufacturer called Haydu Brothers Laboratories, and introduced in 1955 by Burroughs Corporation, who purchased Haydu and owned the name Nixie as a trademark. The name Nixie was derived by Burroughs from "NIX I", an abbreviation of "Numeric Indicator eXperimental No. 1." Similar devices that functioned in the same way were patented in the 1930s, and the first mass-produced display tubes were introduced in 1954 by National Union Co. under the brand name Inditron.

Citing dissatisfaction with the aesthetics of modern digital displays and a nostalgic fondness for the styling of obsolete technology, significant numbers of electronics enthusiasts in recent years have shown interest in reviving Nixies. Unsold tubes that have been sitting in warehouses for decades are being brought out and used, the most common application being in homemade digital clocks. This is somewhat ironic, since during their heyday, Nixies were generally considered too expensive for use in mass-market consumer goods such as clocks. This recent surge in demand has caused prices to rise significantly, particularly for large tubes. The largest type known to be in the hands of collectors, the Rodan CD47/GR-414 (220 mm [8.7 in] tall), have been sold for hundreds of dollars each, but these are extremely rare and only found in a few areas of the world by persistent and fortunate seekers.

Donkeys Towing Faulty Luxury SUV Back to Dealership

2012-09-07T00:53:00.001-07:00

That's the way to do it :)

A Shenyang businessman made Chinese headlines the other day, after he used two donkeys two tow his faulty Range Rover back to the dealership, in protest.
Just two weeks after another dissatisfied car owner had his Lamborghini Gallardo smashed with jackhammers, in protest of poor quality vehicles that auto companies chose to sell in China, a similar incident took place in front of a Rover dealership. A man sick of having to repair his Range Rover every few months, rented two donkeys and had them tow his broken vehicle back to its manufacturer, and asked for a total refund.
The protester bought his luxury SUV in 2010, for 2 million yuan ($304,000), and it reportedly broke down six times before he eventually had to replace the entire engine. When the car died on him for the seventh time, the angry owner felt he had to do something to send a clear message to car makers about the shady quality of their products. So he rented the donkeys, glued a protest banner to the SUV and towed it back to the dealership.
Although his actions grabbed a lot of media attention, they weren’t enough to convince Rover to give him the total refund he asked for. They’ll probably just fix it for him, again.

Kinect Powered Trash Can Moves to Catch Garbage

2012-08-20T07:11:00.001-07:00

I need one of these. It’s a trash can on wheels connected (wirelessly, obviously) to a wall-mounted Microsoft Kinect. The Kinect uses it’s motion tracking capabilities to track garbage flying through the air and move the garbage can to the right spot to catch the flying debris. No matter what you toss or where in the room you toss it, the trash can catches it. Obviously there’s a lot of programming and engineering that goes into it to make the trash can actually move and talk to the Kinect. It’s all in Japanese, so if anyone has any more information on this, please leave a comment.

Weaponize your iPhone with a Knucklecase

2012-08-20T06:57:00.005-07:00

If you’ve ever thought about going all Naomi Campbell and using your iPhone as a weapon, you know it’s not particularly conducive to giving beatdowns (and too valuable to throw). That’s where the Knucklecase for the iPhone 4/4S comes in. Made of solid aluminum, this case is designed to just be used to hold your phone. Yeah right. And these brass knuckles are just decorative and this sword is just for show and this 9mm is just for hunting rabbits in the yard and everything in this store is tobacco use only. At the very least, it looks like you could swing the phone around on your finger if you get bored.